greevous
English edit
Adjective edit
greevous (comparative more greevous, superlative most greevous)
- Obsolete spelling of grievous
- 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon:
- If any therefore demand, which is now most perfection, to ease an extremity by divorce, or to enrage and fester it by the greevous observance of a miserable wedloc, I am not destitute to say which is most perfection (although som who beleev they thinke favourably of divorce, esteem it only venial to informity)